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Earliest Cases On Military Ships by BILL RICE, JR.
Where Are American Scientists? by ALEX BERENSON
Incentives, Incentives, Incentives by ROBERT W MALONE MD, MS
Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinaemia by JESSICA ROSE
Mass Dying Event by ASHMEDAI
Bubble Kids by ZEPHARETH LEDBETTER
NIH Bandits by EL GATO MALO
Vaccines Causing Type 1 Diabetes by STEVE KIRSCH
Argentina’s Anarcho-Capitalist by JORDAN SCHACHTEL
The Downside Risk Of Javier by JEFF CHILDERS
2020 Non-Covid Death Rates Soar by T CODDINGTON
Canada’s Continued Deaths by IGOR CHUDOV
Queensland ACM Rise by REBEKAH BARNETT
Rise In Chronic Absenteeism by JOSH STEVENSON
Antibody Class Switch by NAKED EMPEROR
Biden Caught Using Pseudonym by AMUSE
CCDH Were Covid Thought Police DAVID MARKS
Not Solving The Drug Problem by PHILIP O'REILLY
Zero Deaths From Ivermectin by PETER HALLIGAN
The Control Group by NAKED EMPEROR
Earliest Cases On Military Ships by BILL RICE, JR.
crew members of the USS Roosevelt could, in fact, be listed as “confirmed” cases and by themselves debunk the narrative that America’s first cases came from travelers returning from Wuhan.
The same antibody results suggest that at least 59.7 percent of the ship’s approximately 4,800 crew members had already been infected by mid to late April 2020. This means approximately 3,000 crew members had contracted the virus by this date.
two other “outbreaks” on military vessels from approximately the same time period.
Sixty percent of crew members on the French air craft carrier The Charles De Gaulle tested positive for antibodies after an outbreak said to have begun in March 2020.
Also, an outbreak that infected at least 41 percent of the 333 crew members on the guided missile destroyer USS Kidd resulted in no deaths.
As far as I’m aware, this might be the only CDC study that defines a Covid case as someone who tested positive on an ELISA antibody test.
Language in the Roosevelt study definitely “confirms” at least two sailors, both of whom later tested positive for antibodies, experienced Covid symptoms between Jan. 12-17, 2020.
This language is extremely significant as hundreds of other early cases in the world could/might be “confirmed” if the same definitions used in the Roosevelt study also applied to these likely early cases.
Where Are American Scientists? by ALEX BERENSON
In only the last few weeks, researchers in Switzerland, Hong Kong, and Italy have published papers suggesting mRNA-caused myocarditis is more common and may hurt the heart for longer than previously known, while South Korean cardiologists reported almost two dozen fatal mRNA-caused myocarditis cases.
Only yesterday, immunologists in Hungary reported the mRNAs over time cause people to produce more of a type of antibody that does not destroy the coronavirus, building on findings last winter from German researchers.
Meanwhile, Japanese scientists have published many studies and case reports on potential autoimmune side effects of the mRNAs, including thyroid disease and rheumatoid arthritis.
now that the winter 2021 promise of an mRNA miracle has vanished, American scientists and institutions have disappeared too. The lack of American research on papers examining problems with the jabs grows more glaring each week.
Incentives, Incentives, Incentives by ROBERT W MALONE MD, MS
There were two main programs for “incentives” for this regulated biological product. The first was pretty straight-up; this many bucks extra per jabbed patient as an "incentive". The government paid insurance companies, who then would reimburse providers. The amount of money for this program is staggering, although the government has not made the individual distribution amounts of insurance companies, pharmacies, etc. public.
A second incentive program was based on a bonus system for percent of patients vaccinated during the 2021 year.
It appears that during 2021, the individual bonus plan and the percent vaccinated “incentive” program ran simultaneously.
If a practice managed to achieve a 75% vaccination rate, the bonus and incentive program would have yielded an extra profit somewhere in the range of $382,125.00 for 2021!
Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinaemia by JESSICA ROSE
a rare blood cancer that affects B cells called Waldenström macroglobulinemia (lymphoma) is affecting people…who were injected with the COVID-19 products
It is a rare type of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma that leads to high levels of IgM to yield thick ‘jelly-like’ blood. Sound familiar?
It can manifest in blood vessel damage, bleeding, neuropathy, enlarged organs, anemia, retinal damage leading to blurred vision, fatigue, enlarged organs and swollen lymph nodes.
I checked in VAERS, and I was surprised to find that there are 49 reports of Waldenstrom’s. 37 of these reports did not involve a history.
There are 37 cases filed to VAERS for an extremely rare cancer with an acute occurrence.
Mass Dying Event by ASHMEDAI
Apple Valley Village Health Center, also known as the Augustana Health Center of Apple Valley, suffered what could be accurately described as a mass dying event after they vaccinated the resident
January 2021 saw an astounding 25 deaths, way more than any previous year.
There was a mass dying event that happened in January 2021, when we know the vaccines were rolled out to seniors in nursing homes
There were essentially no covid deaths prior to January 2021 in this nursing home facility, but then covid deaths exploded, with at least 24 in January alone, plus 4 more in February.
Bubble Kids by ZEPHARETH LEDBETTER
As technology and communications have exploded during the last generation, the requirements of humans have evolved (or devolved, depending on your perspective) at an unnatural rate. This has led to many children being unaware of the human efforts required to create and maintain our environments.
Real life can be hard at times. There are consequences for our mistakes. Contemporary youth have been trained to circumvent this reality, accessing whatever they need with the touch of a button. Their search for accomplishment, information, and meaning is no longer achieved through the trial and error which defined humans throughout our history.
We have created a bubble generation, sealed off from the sometimes harsh realities of actual life. Throughout our history, developmental years were always spent learning about life’s obstacles and how to best navigate them.
NIH Bandits by EL GATO MALO
"First of all, according to the regulations, people who receive royalties are not required to divulge them, even on their financial statement, according to the Bayh-Dole act," Fauci said.
the NIH is a thieves forest where the public money they take from your taxes is used to fund research, but when the research proves fruitful the royalty payments therefrom often go not to the agency but to the individual staffers who were involved.
not only are they making out like bandits, but they have no obligation to report these royalties or their amounts publicly or even to congress.
there is zero oversight and this makes the insider trading rules in the house and senate look positively benign.
you’d think this kind of personal profit incentive would get flagged as the most egregious of conflicts of interest and be both banned and scrutinized with the utmost care for the merest whiff of impropriety or influence peddling.
Vaccines Causing Type 1 Diabetes by STEVE KIRSCH
We know from many studies that vaccines are the primary cause of auto-immune diseases. For example, my survey of over 10,000 kids showed an OR of 22 which means that 95% of autoimmune diseases, in general, are caused by vaccines. Anyone can replicate that survey in 24 hours, but nobody in mainstream medicine will dare to do this.
The same survey showed that kids who were vaccinated were about 4.7 times more likely to get diabetes than kids who avoided all vaccines (and the k-shot).
The clincher is that there is a pediatric clinic in America which has had thousands of fully unvaxxed kids over the last 25 years. The rate of type 1 diabetes in that practice is zero.
Argentina’s Anarcho-Capitalist by JORDAN SCHACHTEL
On Monday, Mr Milei delivered a shocking upset in the Argentina presidential primary vote, sending shockwaves across the world.
In the aftermath of the vote, Milei vowed to bring “an end to the parasitic, corrupt and useless political caste that exists in this country.”
Javier Milei wants the people of Argentina to be free from the whims of central bankers and their partners who populate the global ruling class, and that makes him a problem to be dealt with.
He’s an avowed anarcho-capitalist, but with a more pragmatic approach to policy.
If elected in Argentina’s general elections…he would become the most anti-establishment force in Latin America to lead a nation since the 2019 election that saw Nayib Bukele become president of El Salvador.
The Downside Risk Of Javier by JEFF CHILDERS
Javier’s anti-collectivist enthusiasm is great. So is the fact that the majority of conservative Argentines voted for him. But he’s almost … well … I hate to say this … a tad too enthusiastically anti-collectivist. I mean, Argentinians are often described as hot-blooded, and who can blame them, and I don’t certainly want to apply American cultural norms, but Javier’s palpable hatred for collectivists spurred a gnawing concern that might be something to think about.
If we anti-establishment folks finally do win, and I think we will, is there a danger of over-reaction? Imagine President Trump winning the 2024 election against all odds, somehow navigating 753 criminal charges from 16 blue states. His first act would be to pardon himself of all the federal charges, but the state charges would survive. Then President Trump might ask an enraged red Congress to indefinitely suspend Habeas Corpus, so that he could deal effectively with the state charges, and lock up all the criminals who orchestrated this heinous coup.
2020 Non-Covid Death Rates Soar by T CODDINGTON
25-34 year old summary:
2018 →2019: Flat
2019→2020: Total deaths increase 26%, a mild portion is labeled COVID
2020→2021: Additional 11% increase in total deaths, of which almost half is labeled due to COVID
2021→2022: Total deaths decrease by 10%, reduction in COVID deaths are a large portion. Numbers are still well above the 2018-19 base case.
Primary questions coming out of this…. 1) Why did death rates soar in 2020 for all ages, even where COVID was not a major cause of death? 2) Why haven’t (at least as of end of 2022) death rates returned to their pre-COVID level? 3) Why aren’t any major news/health organizations asking these questions?
Canada’s Continued Deaths by IGOR CHUDOV
Unfortunate news from highly COVID-vaccinated Canada. In 2023, deaths are 15-20% higher than usual, reports the Globe and Mail (paywall-free link). The authors and health experts are baffled and cannot find the reason.
There is one word that the article is glaringly missing: “vaccine.”
Canada is one of the most highly COVID-vaccinated countries in the world.
excess mortality in Canada is extremely high, while excess mortality in mostly unvaccinated Bulgaria is now negative, despite both countries being exposed to the same pathogen
The more boosters (and COVID vaccines), the greater the overall mortality.
Queensland ACM Rise by REBEKAH BARNETT
a clearly marked upturn in all-cause mortality (ACM) among those aged 60 and older coinciding with the primary series vaccine rollout, from around March 2021.
The temporal association between the vaccine rollout and the upturn in ACM is striking and highly significant in light of the official refrain that, because only 14 deaths have been formally associated with Covid vaccines by the Therapeutic Goods Association (TGA), the vaccines cannot have anything to do with Australia’s high rates of excess mortality.
the majority of reported deaths following Covid vaccination are in those aged 60 and over, the same group that shows a sharp uptick in ACM during the primary series rollout in Queensland.
Rise In Chronic Absenteeism by JOSH STEVENSON
A new preprint is out from a professor at Stanford, that analyzes the Chronic Absenteeism rates from before and after the pandemic. The paper analyzed mask mandates, enrollment changes, and the percentage increase in Chronic Absenteeism at a state level. Below is a chart that shows the increase between the 2018/19 School year, and the 2021/22 School Year.
many states that have the longest closures also had the largest increase in absenteeism.
The statistical analysis in the paper found that the mask mandates had no statistical effect on absenteeism at all.
For all of the claims about how masks kept kids in school, the actual evidence contradicts that claim completely.
Antibody Class Switch by NAKED EMPEROR
So this antibody class switch could mean that people’s immune systems are tolerating the Covid virus, in the same way as you do with pollen, instead of clearing it straight away. Normally, your body would detect the virus and produce the necessary responses to kill it off as quickly as possible. But with the antibody class switch, it is allowed to run amok, fatiguing the immune system and therefore allowing other illnesses to take hold.
The bad news is that a new study from Semmelweis University, Budapest confirms this. They found, as other studies have found, that vaccinated individuals produced this class switch to IgG4 antibodies.
Biden Caught Using Pseudonym by AMUSE
President Biden has been caught using the pseudonym, Robert L. Peters, to communicate with Hunter Biden's foreign business associates. This includes alleged secret communications with Ukraine's then-president and other foreign officials. The use of this pseudonym prevented the discovery of these messages under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
The allegations surrounding President Biden's use of a pseudonym to communicate with his son's business associates, including the then-president of Ukraine, have raised serious questions about transparency, ethics, and the separation of personal and official duties. As investigations continue and more information comes to light, the American public awaits clarity on these pressing issues. Hopefully, the House of Representatives will send the president a strongly worded letter.
CCDH Were Covid Thought Police DAVID MARKS
The Missouri v. Biden lawsuit alleges that the White House pressured social media to close accounts of pandemic policy dissenters. During discovery, Eric Waldo, the Senior Advisor to the Surgeon General admitted CCDH briefed their office before they pressured Facebook for more censorship.
The CCDH's overt purpose was to stop any alternative thinking about how to respond to a viral outbreak. Their offense against those who failed to accept vaccines as a panacea presents a telling window into the boldness of authoritarian bullying over the last three years.
At the peak of CCDH's influence, they released a malicious piece of propaganda, called The Disinformation Dozen. The document was a frontal, full-scale attack on those who questioned the viability and motives of the mainstream response to the pandemic. This manifesto was conceived as a distractive and deceptive instrument — disseminated among the willing world press corps. Not only was the news media compromised by their funders, but they were also hungry for a scapegoat and eager to enthusiastically repeat easily drawn, though suspect conclusions.
Not Solving The Drug Problem by PHILIP O'REILLY
The left’s efforts to deal with the drug issue have also proven to be ineffective. Harm reduction policies advocated by the left in British Columbia, which include supervised injection sites (2003), safe supply (2020), and a continuing expansion of decriminalized drugs have failed to reduce overdoses. And may be making matters worse as there is some indication that drugs from the safe supply program are being sold on the black market.
The failure of harm reduction policies to solve the drug problem would not come as a surprise to its advocates as that was never its intention. In a rare note of honesty, the Canadian Medical Association Journal has admitted that the purpose of decriminalization is “to reduce the stigma of addiction” and “reduce overdoses,” not solve the drug problem. While reducing overdoses should be one goal, the link between drug abuse, homelessness, and crime is not solved by making it easier to abuse drugs.
Zero Deaths From Ivermectin by PETER HALLIGAN
not only did all the (670,000?) vaxx deaths and (30-50million?) adverse events need not have been happened, but 100 million of the 108 million “cases” and around a million of the 1.2 million deaths with C19 present need not have been suffered either.
an investigation by Jacques Descortes did a scoping review two years ago led him to believe that NO-ONE has died from Ivermectin.
Even taking 100 times or 1,000 times the dose might make you dizzy, but normality resumes after a few days.
The Control Group by NAKED EMPEROR
a team of about 15 scientists, doctors, and professionals from other fields to collect data on vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals since mid-2021. Their initiative is called "The Control Group"
Although they couldn't perform a double-blind study, as people are aware of their vaccination status, their data collection efforts would help answer the question of whether vaccination was a good idea
The study found that vaccinated individuals experienced more and more severe complaints compared to unvaccinated individuals. The overall complaint severity was two times higher in the vaccinated group.
Initially, the data suggested that vaccination provided some protection against Covid, as the number of complaints reported was higher in the unvaccinated control group in 2021. However, by 2022, this trend reversed, and vaccinated individuals were contracting Covid 18% more often and more severely than unvaccinated individuals.
Surprisingly, the control group of unvaccinated individuals provided insights into the long-Covid question. It was observed that unvaccinated individuals were worse off after a Covid, however it was mainly those who were already on medication for thyroid or cardiovascular diseases due to chronic conditions.
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And, in case you missed it, with Kevin McKernan’s help I was able to put his important work into language that is more consumable for the non-scientists out there:
Thanks for giving my USS Roosevelt story a larger audience. There are more oddities that should have been big news from that non-story. More to come on the Roosevelt outbreak and antibody study ...